Accident and the Modern Experience
31 Maio 2017, 14:00 • Johannes Türk
The lecture explores the role of accidents in modern experience. It began by outlining the new nature of accidents that emerge in the late 19th century in the context of modern traffic. It then showed how trauma and contingency were the two major challenges to representation of the accident. IN a series of readings and analyses of literary texts the productivity of the theme was emphasized. In ascon part, low our was explored in relation to the production of a image of contingency. N particular, a scene was analyzed in which the protagonist takes a series of photographs of the event and tries to bring it together with the sound he has recorded in order to make visible the intentional plot that he suggests underlies the accident. The film as a whole, however, shows how intention and accident interact in order to create an image of contingency. The last part was devoted to a commentary of Aristotle's concept of accident and its relation to intention through the two forms of tuche and to automaton.